definitions

immediatism

[ ih-mee-dee-uh-tiz-uh m ]
/ ɪˈmi di əˌtɪz əm /
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noun U.S. History.

a policy for the immediate abolition of slavery.

Nearby words

immediate flap, immediate percussion, immediate reaction, immediate transfusion, immediately, immediatism, immedicable, immelmann, immelmann turn, immemorial, immense

Origin of immediatism

First recorded in 1815–25; immediate + -ism

Related forms

im·me·di·a·tist, noun
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Examples from the Web for immediatism

  • Their doctrine of immediatism—if we may invent a new term—is always one and the same, and always has been.

    Abolition a Sedition|Geo. W. Donohue

  • These English abolitionists were coming to "immediatism" from 1824, and their influence told in America.

    The Negro and the Nation|George S. Merriam

  • Garrison, consequently rejected gradualism as a weapon, and took up instead the great and quickening doctrine of immediatism.

    William Lloyd Garrison|Archibald H. Grimke